Xenofon Nikitopoulos
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NMC : 11D0198C
PERSONAL PROFILE
Competent and responsible registered nurse with twenty years of experience in dialysis and intensive care. Dedicated and patient-focused, with proven strengths in patient care, staff development and family advocacy, including administrative and referral procedure, admissions, assessment, treatment and education for a wide range of patients. Outstanding interpersonal and communications skills, superior accuracy in patient history, charting and other documentation. Enjoys working as part of a team and developing knowledge through training courses and reading.
SKILLS
Advanced Cardiac Life support ( ACLS).
Qualified in patient safety guidelines under the Joint Commission International.
Triple lumen CVP, AV fistulas.
Care plan creation and administration.
NG/Sump and Peg tubes, Meditech documendation.
Knowledge for Heamodialysis for acute and chronic Kidney Diseases.
Hemodynamic monitoring and assessing.
Highly experienced in respiratory therapy, drugs administration, and gas blood measurement.
High standards of Infection control.
Broad Clinical experience.
Sound knowledge of medical terminology, cardiac surgical equipments, Intra Aortic Balloon Pump.
Ability to handle emergency situations.
In depth knowledge of cardiovascular diseases and the ways of prevention.
Gained knowledge of admin nursing duties.
Capable of providing diagnoses and treating patients with serious conditions.
Working knowledge of cardiovascular system.
Ability to produce documentation using various software applications.
Staff Managerial and supervisory experience
Able to communicate with cardio surgery team about the patients’ recovery after surgery
Able to assist doctors during intubation, central and arterial lines procedures.
EMPLOYMENT
Staff nurse Dialysis unit 09/2016 to present
Hammersmith Renal unit
September 2016, I have started again to work as dialysis nurse in a busy satellite unit for Imperial NHS trust in London. Is a busy unit, covering and offering treatment for 120 patients.
Delivering quality of care and follow the last updates quidelines for dialysis, this unit gave me the opportunity to work again in heamodialysis.
Taking care central permanent catheters for dialysis, vanupacture fistulas and grafts, general nursing care for the patients, communication with family's members, education of patients and advise for nutrition issues, are some of my daily duties.
Assist also staff in medical equipments, as part of my previous and present experience in intensive care units. Support them to understand and develop skills in these equipments, as ECG machine, volumetric pumps, continue monitoring, saturation probe.
Senior/ Charge Nurse ACCU 11/2015 to present as bank ITU nurse
St. Barts Hospital
Junior/Charge Nurse Nurse in a busy ACCU at St. Barts hospital. The unit has 34 beds with complicated cardiac and general cases. Delivering daily quality of care under QCQ standards.
Responsible for daily running issues in the unit, teaching and mentoring students and new qualified nurses.
Level 3 patients post op cardiac and general complicated procedures, hemofiltration, novalung, ecmo patients.
Full Agency ICU Nurse10/2014 to 11/2015
Working as full agency ICU nurse, around London area with experience in most busy hospitals, most of them NHS trust with complicated cases and busy level 3 patients. Busy hospitals such as King’s College, Queens and King’s Georges hospital, Whipps cross Hospital.
Delivering quality of care and meet the patients needs in all levels.
Royal Brompton Hospital 18/02/2013 to 05/10/2014
AICU Staff Nurse
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
Prepare and administer(orally, subcutaneously, through an IV) and records prescribed medications.
Provides basic, bedside care.
Records patients’ medical information and vital signs.
Orders, interprets and evaluates diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient’s condition.
Prepare equipment and aids physician during examination and treatment of patient
Monitoring and adjust specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic.
Display, such as central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, manometers, oxygen pumps.
Monitors catheters, leads and tubing for proper placement and functioning
Care for patients who have severe medical cardiac conditions and who may require optimisation prior to surgery, intra-aortic balloon pumping or management of ventricular assist devices (VAD).
Patients with extensive respiratory problems are also provided with specialist ventilator support. Patients who develop renal failure are managed effectively by the administration of haemofiltration.
St. John and St. Elizabeth Hospital 14/11/2012 to 15/02/2013
HDU/Recovery nurse
Duties:
Caring for the patients that have undergone general anesthesia immediately post operatively, in the post an anesthetic recovery area.
Continue assessment and monitoring of patients to ensure criteria for discharge has been met. Assess levels of pain and nausea.
Pain management to ensure for wellbeing before the patients transfer in the ward.
Administration of appropriate medication as prescribed.
Prepare the HDU unit for any admission for the theater or emergency from the wards.
Provide a high standard of evidence based care to a designated group of patients.
Responsible for the management of an assigned group of patients.
Communicate effectively with all members of the multi disciplinary team to ensure the relevant information regarding the patient’s needs/condition are communicated to them, and that any instructions from them regarding the patient’s care/condition are acted upon.
Spire Harpenden Hospital 02/07/2012 to 31/10/2012
Staff Nurse
Duties:
Provide exemplary planned care for patients, drugs administration, admin patients for a large range of procedures.
Excellent knowledge of using all the equipments as infusion devices, monitors, blood gas, glucose test.
Pain management as provided from the guidelines and hospital’s protocols.
Assess patients’ health and well being across a complex and changing caseload.
Responsible to assist in the delivery of care to meet individuals health and wellbeing needs.
Promote good practice in health and patients safety.
Admin patients for the theater and follow the guidelines as part as daily practice.
Excellent communication with patients and other member of staff, providing highest levels of clinical and costumer care all the times.
Hygeia Private General Hospital, Athens, Greece April 2008 to 30/12/2011
Assistant Manager, Cardiac ICU
Duties:
Responsible for care plans, drugs administration, the delivery of base nursing practice care to the patients. My role also involved organizing the admission and transfer of patients.
Able to perform the correct use of mechanic invasive and non invasive ventilation, with a proven knowledge of different modalities like CMV, SIMV, BIPAP, ASB.
Maintained record of the care plan and the therapy assigned to the patients with mechanical ventilation.
Applied the correct use of hemodynamic and cardiac monitoring systems, including the Swan-Ganz catheter, external pacemaker, and different drugs used in the cardiovascular ill patients.
Worked with the system of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).
Supervised and mentored students and newly qualified nurses.
Key achievements:
Became member of the cardiac arrest team through participation to an ACLS course.
Improved the quality of the charts and other documentation at the ICU.
Selected to be part of a team to ensure the correct use of the Joint Commission International process on patients’ safety.
Ionio Therapeutirio, Athens, Greece October 2002 to April 2008
Manager Dialysis unit
Duties:
Organised and managed the new dialysis unit.
Responsible for patient appointments, as well as the treatment and the kind of dialysis they required.
Drug administration.
Supervision and training of staff.
Puncture fistulas and grafts.
Organised the charts and all the guidelines in use at the unit.
In charge of the patient’s education, including the kind of heamodialysis, treatment and relative duration.
Planning of patients’ diet that required frequent updates and review in relation to condition.
Took part in monthly meetings with all the doctors and nurses from the unit to discuss the patient progress, general condition, and to find solutions to problems encountered during the month. New dialysis procedures were also discussed during the meeting.
Attended training courses aimed to keep updated with new methodology in dialysis treatment.
Key achievements:
Efficiently organized a new unit with all the equipment and materials necessary for the patients’ treatment.
Improved the communication with patients’ and their relatives through weekly meetings.
Involved with budget planning in line with the corporate guidelines.
Improved staff performance through tailored training courses.
Erikos Dinan, Athens, Greece October 2001 to April 2002
Assistant Manager, Dialysis Unit
Duties:
Responsible for managing appointments, treatments planning, and the kind of dialysis the patients required.
Drugs administration.
Punctured fistulas and grafts.
Responsible for the monthly patients’ blood plan examination.
Trained new staff on renal diseases and patient treatment.
Involved in charting and the draft of other documentation.
Key achievements:
Mastered the use of Gambro and Fresenius Dialysis machines.
Wrote clearer and up-to-date guidelines for the prevention of dialysis catheters infections.
Upon my suggestion, a team was created to increase the efficiency of the logistic system.
Euroclinic, Athens, Greece June 1999 to September 2001
Stuff Nurse, Cardiac and General ICU
Duties:
Used mechanical ventilation machines and kind of respiratory therapy equipment.
Administration of cardio drugs and inotropes.
Admin cardio surgery patients from theater.
Responsible for Dialysis treatment in ICU.
Tracheotomy and use of all the equipment necessary for this task.
Use of heamodynamic and cardiac monitor.
Key achievements:
It was my first position as staff nurse in ICU and gave me the opportunity to master the use of numerous equipments and improve critical care skills.
General Hospital Kalamata, Messinia, Greece September 1993 to May 1999
Staff Nurse Dialysis Unit
Duties:
Worked in Dialysis unit.
Puncture fistulas, grafts.
Drug administration during the dialysis treatment.
Anticoagulation management for the preparation of dialysis machines and catheters.
Key achievements:
I have been selected by the management team to take part to a Postgraduate course in Pathological Nursing in General Hospital Evaggelismos in Athens, Greece.
FURTHER EDUCATION
- 1st scientific meeting of sector I.C.U. E.S.D.N.E. subject “Reflections and prospects in the space of ICU.”
- 2ND nursing meeting, Euroclinic, Athens General Hospital
Subject – Qualitative Administration and Modern Education. Big Challenge of Nursing.
- 7th to 14th , Scientific meetings of Nephrology Nurses of Greek Nurses.
- 22nd Pan-Hellenic Nursing Congress, Kalamata 10th-12th October 1995 Subject – Prevention of Infections
- 2nd Pan-Hellenic Congress of Nephrology Nurses. Volos 17th – 18th May 1996
- 1st Medical Congress, Naval Hospital, Athens 21st -23rd February 1997
- 1st pan-hellenic congress, Subject – hemotraslation, Olympia 14th - 15th May 2004
- State Of The Art Interdisciplinary Review Course, Subject – Thoracic and critical care medicine 18th – 20th April 1997
- Attiko General Hospital, Subject – Urgent subjects of hygiene in the space of hospital. 5th June 2004
- Errikos Dinan General Hospital. Subject – Basic Life Support. October 2008
- Rochville University. Master in nursing administration (Online course). Errikos Dinan – General hospital
- Subject – Advance cardiac life support. March 2010
- 10th - 23rd April 2010, As part of team from hospital “Hygeia” had made an education trip in Boston USA.
- Member of ERA-EDTA, ERC, EfCCNa, AACCN, BACCN.
EDUCATION
- 02/2016 – 04/2016 Mentorship course South bank University College
- 05/2014- 08/2014 ICU course in King’s college university
- ECMO training study day at Bromptom Hospital
- 2009 Rochville University – Distance Learning: Post graduate in Nursing Administration
- 1998 Postgraduate in Pathological Nursing General Hospital Euaggelismos, Athens,Greece
- 1991 Technological institute of Larisa, Greece: Nursing degree